Sentence examples for moving causes from inspiring English sources

We can correctly reconstruct the moving causes that brought us about, and analyze our material causes.

These cases are grouped by Aristotle as efficient or moving causes on the one hand and as final causes on the other.

On this view, the act of trying — which is the act of moving — causes a movement of the arm in much the same way that an act of moving the arm causes the onset of illumination in the light.

See Metaphysics 12.5, 1071a14-17, where Aristotle also mentions that these latter moving causes are not instances of the same form as their effects, i.e. the principle of causational synonymy does not hold in their case.

As internal principles of moving and rest, natures stand in an exclusive relationship to the efficient or moving causes of the motions and rests they bring about: in some cases when Aristotle is not specifying the first moving cause, he can assert the identity of nature and moving cause.

This implies that even though we may answer the question as to why the elements move to their natural places the light bodies up and the heavy ones down by an appeal to their respective natures as causes ("that it is simply their nature to move somewhere, and this is what it is to be light and to be heavy" Physics 8.4, 255b13 17), we do not thereby specify their moving causes.

We can identify a moving cause, or what initiates a change: the impact of a cue stick on a billiard ball is the moving cause of the ball's motion.

We lack any effective means of moving cause and effect together for privacy, especially for the worst kinds of privacy disasters.

For the identification of the moving cause of these locomotions Aristotle invokes his distinction of two potentialities.

But even such a causally responsible agent will not qualify as the moving cause, without yet further qualifications.

Our life comes from His life, as the moving cause.